A Pleasing Copy - Mark Twain’s Sketches - First Edition
In the Publisher's Original Cloth Gilt Binding - 1875
Twain, Mark. MARK TWAIN'S SKETCHES, New and Old. Now First Published in Complete Form (Hartford: The American Publishing Co, 1875) First edition, second state, without the quote on p. 120. With many illustrations throughout. Square 8vo, publisher's original royal blue gilt and black decorated cloth, a near exact match to the binding of TOM SAWYER. 320 pp. A very nice copy, handsome, clean and bright with some light age evidence or edge rubbing to the cloth.
A HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED FIRST EDITION COPY. Some of the material included is here published for the first time.
This compilation of short stories was a fairly early publication of the great American author, coming out prior to his masterworks; TOM SAWYER, LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, CONNECTICUT YANKEE, HUCK FINN, et al. It was shorter works such as these gathered here, along with extensive speaking tours, that won for Twain the fame and fortune which made his later publications possible. This work includes THE JUMPING FROG, Twain's biggest success to the date, as well as more then sixty other stories and essays, many never before published. BAL 3364. |
